TB and mycobacteria

Question 0

True or False: TB is transmissible from person to person

Answer 0

True

Question 1

What kind of stain identifies mycobacterium?

Answer 1

Acid-fast

Question 2

True or False: non-TB mycobacterium are transmissible from person to person

Answer 2

False

Question 3

True or False: TB can establish latency

Answer 3

True

Question 4

TB transmission will most likely occur in (open or closed) spaces? Over (minutes or hours)?

Answer 4

Closed, hours

Question 5

TB is spread through

Answer 5

Inhalation

Question 6

The first 8 weeks of TB is called

Answer 6

Primary Tuberculosis

Question 7

Primary TB is (local or diffuse)

Answer 7

Local

Question 8

Primary TB likes which part of the lungs?

Answer 8

Apical posterior

Question 9

The hallmark of TB is an organization of macrophages, epithelial cells, lymphocytes, langhan’s giant cells, and fibroblasts around the TB antigen in order to contain it is called _____?

Answer 9

Granuloma

Question 10

One third of the world’s population has a _______ TB infection

Answer 10

Latenet

Question 11

Is TB transmissible while latent?

Answer 11

No

Question 12

What is the percentage of TB infections that will be:
Primary progressive TB?
Reactivation TB?
Contained?

Answer 12

5%
5%
90%

Question 13

What can trigger Reactivation TB?

Answer 13

Stress, illness, aging, immunocompromise

Question 14

People infected with HIV are how much more likely to develop TB?

Answer 14

21-34x

Question 15

Signs and sxs of active TB are

Answer 15

Cough, fever, night sweats, weight loss